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This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
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Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
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-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more … classroom training. We then demonstrate that on-the-job training has a positive impact on firm-level productivity through …
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Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …
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the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …
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fee-for-service basis. Since wage rates are exogenous, earning differentials are driven by differences in productivity. We …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity … physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low-productivity …
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subjects that are less productivity-enhancing. …
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In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …
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